Washington, DC--Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN) announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing on serious and long standing management problems at the Department of Defense (DOD). The Committee will explore solutions to reported incidents of waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement at DOD including maintaining thousands of computer systems that cannot talk to each other, continuing to make payments to individuals after they have died, storing a hundred years supply of spare parts, overpaying contractors and continuing to buy items the military will never use. The following witnesses will testify before the Committee:

John J. Hamre Under Secretary of Defense and Comptroller Department of Defense